Samsung Looks to join the Satellite Internet Space race

In an article for Wired, Klint Finley details Samsung's plan for expanding the reach of the internet for billions of people. In a paper published this week, Farooq Khan, head of Samsung Research America, outlines an idea for using thousands of small low earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide high-speed internet all over the planet. Samsung plans to adopt a plan like this in order to improve it's reach and efficiency in it's market. 

Samsung also details how companies like SpaceX, Google, and Virgin are also in the space race to expand access to the internet. Samsung is hardly alone and there is a surplus of competition, but at least we can see that progress is being made to improve the quality of access thanks to the benefits of expense and transportation of small satellites. 

Here is the full article:
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/samsung-looks-join-satellite-internet-space-race/